Jarrett Turner

Jarrett Turner is a graduate student in chemical engineering who seeks to deepen our understanding of fluids under extreme nanoconfinement—an area with wide-reaching implications for chemical separations, nanofluidics, and materials design. His current research focuses on developing an equation of state for confined fluids and applying this framework to study mass transport through nanopores and nanotubes. Jarrett uses MATLAB extensively to model the thermodynamic and transport behavior of fluids in these systems, leveraging built-in ordinary differential equation solvers, hypergeometric functions, and surrogate optimization techniques. These tools enable him to explore complex, nonlinear systems, validate physical models, and refine theoretical predictions using experimental data. As a MathWorks Fellow, Jarrett will advance simulation techniques for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in nanoscale systems. His work could inform the design of next-generation membranes and chemical reactors by shedding light on how confinement alters fluid behavior at the molecular level.